State Ex Rel. McWilliams v. Town of Oak Point

BARROW, Justice.

The question presented by this quo war-ranto proceeding is whether an inhabitant of the territory sought to be annexed under the provisions of Article 974 1 must be a “registered voter” in order to vote in the type election prescribed by this statute. The trial court held that the inhabitant, if otherwise qualified, need not be registered, and since a majority of the inhabitants otherwise qualified to vote had not signed the petition favoring annexation, the annexation ordinance was held void. The court of civil appeals, although not directly addressing the pivotal question…